👋, I’m Shane Vitarana.

I’m a software engineer and tech entrepreneur living in New York (and sometimes San Francisco). I like to work with great teams, and develop technology that has a positive impact on the world.
You can follow me on Twitter,
check out my code on GitHub,
and read my comments on Hacker News.

I have worked on everything from low-level embedded systems, government cryptography, enterprise backends, to high-level web frameworks and consumer iOS apps. Recently I've been researching how blockchains can be used for social and environmental impact. I'm a generalist and believe in using the right tool for the job. I like to write clean, simple, well-architected code that's extensible and future-proof. I have a M.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, and once played drums in a cover band.